Home on the Range

In the high desert, about an hour outside of Los Angeles, is a community of bee hive like dwellings that rise out of the ground organically, masquerading as small hills and large rocks.
This is Cal-Earth.

I often dream of these houses. In theory the process is to build them is very simple. Spending a day wandering around their silhouettes, inspecting their placement and imagining the construct I would impose on this design, my heart aches to begin building a home of my own.

These homes and buildings are based on ancient designs and can be found in the furthest parts of the remote civilized world. These houses were and still often are built by the women of the community…I find that beautiful.